A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The ...

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When ET phones home, it could be his last call. Contrary to sci-fi movie depictions, our first contact might not be with a super advanced alien civilization at the height of power. Rather, Ivy League ...

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The search for alien life often assumes discovery would be exciting or hopeful. But there are darker possibilities most people avoid discussing. This video explores five disturbing scenarios that ...

If aliens are out there, why haven’t we heard from them? That’s the question at the center of Pop Mech’s new story, “Aliens Probably Exist—But They’re Staying Silent For a Reason, NASA Scientist ...

Since the 1950s, humanity has been searching for extraterrestrial life with increasingly sophisticated tools. But after decades of space probes, meteorite analysis, radio telescopes, and UFO ...

In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that finding—which won the scientists a portion of the 2019 Nobel Prize in ...

These so-called von Neumann probes, named after the mathematician who conceptualized them, could potentially explain the absence of direct contact with alien civilizations—if we know where, and how, ...

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